Achille Beltrame

L'incendio del vapore "Vitoria" ad Alicante. Anno I. - N.4 Achille Beltrame's color illustrations, published in the magazine Domenica Del Corriere for forty-six years, provided an accurate representation of events in Italy and the world. However, the artist never left Milan, creating his drawings based on reporters' descriptions and using photographs, the archive of which gradually accumulated in his studio on Corso Garibaldi. An artist in the 19th-century tradition, possessed of a lively and fertile spirit, Achille Beltrame maintained an ideal of decorum, balance, and good taste even in his depictions of the most tragic events. Possessing clear communication skills, a vivid imagination, technical mastery, and journalistic talent, he was able to convey facts truthfully without being realistic and sincere without being cruel. Gli esperimenti del telegrafo senza fili attraverso La Manica. Anno I. - N.16 La lotta del principe di Molfetta con un orso. Anno I....

Le barbare incursione nemica. 13 Giugno, 1943 Achille Beltrame was born when Italy had just become a united state — and he died when megalomania had ended in Italy's deepest shame. As eventful as the times were in and for Italy — in Beltrame they had an illustrious illustrator, a "chronicler with brush and pencil". From 1899, Achille Beltrame was an artist for La Domenica del Corriere. Over the course of forty-five years, he published 4,662 works in the weekly. Through the images he created, unique events happening in the world reached the most remote and inaccessible corners of Italy: the hut of a villager and the shack of a mountaineer, providing an avalanche of news and knowledge for generations of Italians who might otherwise have been unaware of what was happening. Achille Beltrame is rightly called not only a master of graphics but also a master of the art of journalism. Sicilia eroika. 27 Giugno, 1943 La guerra nel Mediterraneo. 4 Luglio, 1943 Fronte del...